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From Joseph H. Trego to Alice Trego
[page 1]
Camp Beech Grove
Aug 6th 1862.
My Dear Wife[,]
I write you this time to send you some funds. I hope you will get it all right. I have been thinking for some days how I might send it with the most safety. Charley Varnum leaves to-day. He will carry a large asset for the boys: quite as much as he can do with safety, travelling as he will have to do on the deck of a boat.
I have finally concluded to send by Q[uarter] Master Davis to Leavenworth where he will drop it in the office. If you get this[,] take good care of it as it may be all that I shall be able to supply you with and you may need it before you will find anyone to

This letter, dated August 6 and 7, 1862, is from Joseph H. Trego to his wife Alice. Trego, a lieutenant in the 5th Kansas Cavalry Regiment, writes from Camp Beech Grove. He reports that the weather is so hot that a number of his fellow soldiers have become ill. He includes $690 with his letter and instructs his wife to “take good care of it . . . you may need it before you will find anyone to take my place if I should be so unfortunate as to get killed.”

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From Joseph H. Trego to Alice Trego
[page 1]
Camp Beech Grove
Aug 6th 1862.
My Dear Wife[,]
I write you this time to send you some funds. I hope you will get it all right. I have been thinking for some days how I might send it with the most safety. Charley Varnum leaves to-day. He will carry a large asset for the boys: quite as much as he can do with safety, travelling as he will have to do on the deck of a boat.
I have finally concluded to send by Q[uarter] Master Davis to Leavenworth where he will drop it in the office. If you get this[,] take good care of it as it may be all that I shall be able to supply you with and you may need it before you will find anyone to